TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM



BY H. G. WELLS





CONTENTS



1. Filmer



2. The Magic Shop



3. The Valley of Spiders



4. The Truth About Pyecraft



5. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland



6. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost



7. Jimmy Goggles the God



8. The New Accelerator



9. Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation



10. The Stolen Body



11. Mr. Brisher's Treasure



12. Miss Winchelsea's Heart



13. A Dream of Armageddon









1. FILMER



In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men--

this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only

one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work.

But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided

that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew,

should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen to

honour Watt as the discoverer of steam and Stephenson of the

steam-engine. And surely of all honoured names none is so

grotesquely and tragically honoured as poor Filmer's, the timid,

intellectual creature who solved the problem over which the world



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